Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Urban/Street

Dusk, 2nd and King Streets, San Francisco

May 22, 2009 G Dan Mitchell 2 Comments

Street scene at 2nd and King Streets with elements of the San Francisco skyline and Bay and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge – photographed from AT&T Park.

Switching gears away from the natural landscapes I’ve been posting recently, here is an urban landscape. I was at a Giants-Mets game at AT&T Park in San Francisco (I’d rather not discuss the score, OK? ;-) on a beautiful mid-May Friday evening with my wife. While I do like the baseball (especially on those occasions when the Giants actually play well…) I also like all of the other stuff that makes the ballpark experience what it is: the view of San Francisco Bay (especially as the sun sets), ballpark food (but why oh why did they take away my lemon chicken sausages!?) and wandering around looking at the ball park and the crowd. I also like the great views from around the upper deck of the park.

About 15 minutes before sunset I told my (very understanding) wife that I was going to wander off for a while and do some photography as the last light fell on the City and the bay. There are really wonderful views toward downtown (especially if the fog is just starting to come in – which didn’t happen on this evening) and out toward the SF Oakland Bay Bridge and the rest of the bay. This photograph overlooks the intersection of 2nd and King Streets and, beyond, the Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff – Tenaya Creek

May 21, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Tenaya Creek spring runoff flows over and onto rocks and tree stumps, Yosemite Valley.

This is one more in my sequence of photographs of spring runoff flow in Tenaya Creek below Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley – photographs made during the second weekend of May. In this one I thought I would combine the flow over the streambed rocks with the water running up against the more or less immovable object of the old tree stump. The colors in the water are a combination of the intrinsic green of the water itself, the colors of the rocks over which the creek flows, and light reflected from sunlit vegetation on the opposite bank of the creek.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Dogwood Blossoms and Leaves

May 20, 2009 G Dan Mitchell 1 Comment

Spring dogwood tree blossoms and new leaves, Yosemite Valley.

I found this pair of dogwood blossoms and the accompanying diagonal arrangement of new leaves when I left the crowded “Mirror Lake Trail” (which is, in reality, a road…) and instead walked the parallel and much more attractive footpath through the forest. It can be hard to get a full view of the dogwood flowers from above since the great majority of the flowers grow above eye level. Here I found a large boulder parked next to a tree, and while the leaves were a good distance up in the tree, by climbing onto the boulder and setting my tripod up on top I was able to find a good high position to photograph them.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Submerged Rocks and Reflected Light, Tenaya Creek

May 19, 2009 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Two rocks submerged by spring runoff water in Tenaya Creek with reflectioned light from new growth on the opposite bank, Yosemite Valley, California.

This is basically the vertical format version of the scene that I posted earlier – high and fast spring runoff flow in Tenaya Creek just below Mirror Lake, with color reflected from new spring growth on the far bank of the creek.

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G Dan Mitchell Photography

Dusk, 2nd and King Streets, San Francisco

Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff – Tenaya Creek

Dogwood Blossoms and Leaves

Submerged Rocks and Reflected Light, Tenaya Creek

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